A community centre as a dolls and tree house.
A silent community bulkhead to commercialisation.
Sheltering trees for an inclusive and open community to gather under.
Open welcoming planes above a podium for performance and community.
A police station as an open community porch.
Melton Library, victoria: designed by fjmt
We envisaged the project to become the built focus of public life for the Craigieburn community and also sought to connect the architecture with the landscape that is being rapidly transformed by residential expansion.
Nunawading Hub is an open and inviting public building for a broad range of community activities and gatherings.
The public library has never been more important than it is today. It is the most inclusive and public of buildings. This was already the case in Liverpool where the existing library was highly valued but the facilities poor, evolving out of an existing carpark. Invisible from the street, challenged by its constrained structure.
Located on the edge of the Dee Why town centre, the new PCYC Community Centre provides an entertainment hub for the peninsula’s youngest residents. It is conceived as a cloud like form settling on a pedestal that emerges from the ground. The counterpoint achieved by these two form types express in built form the dual program of community centre over the car park.
Bunjil Place is an example of a new form of community and civic building.
The combination of design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and disassembly and design for locale has produced a warm welcoming and cost-effective and quick-to-construct library embraced by the whole community. This is an innovative delivery methodology for social infrastructure much needed in remote regional areas.
The redevelopment of the Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare site has upgraded and expanded the existing disparate facilities, originally built as a factory, into an elegant and environmentally sustainable mixed us healthcare facility.
The Frank Bartlett Library and Moe Service Centre, designed by fjmt: Two timber portals over a landscaped platform embodying community and civic pride
The conceptual design for Korumburra Community Hub is based on establishing a new community heart for the fast-growing regional township and surrounds. The core idea to create a welcoming and accessible multiple-purpose facility for the changing demographic of the region. Many new young families moving into the Historic Township on the outskirts of Melbourne as well as ensuring the project catered for the older residents from the surrounding traditional farming communities.
Wellington Shire council engaged fjmt to revitalise the historic precinct known as the Port of Sale into a multi-use cultural and civic hub. Originally designed by Stephenson & Turner as an office building in the late-modern brutalist style, the brief for its alteration encompassed redeveloping the precinct of shared multifunctional spaces and revitalised links to the local port, providing the coastal town with a new cultural and community heart.
Wellington Shire council engaged fjmt to revitalise the historic precinct known as the Port of Sale into a multi-use cultural and civic hub. Originally designed by Stephenson & Turner as an office building in the late-modern brutalist style, the brief for its alteration encompassed redeveloping the precinct of shared multifunctional spaces and revitalised links to the local port, providing the coastal town with a new cultural and community heart.